Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind", says the age-old proverb, "which blows nobody good," and the Vagabond was once again struck with the truth of the words when, in the course of his daily perigrinations he came upon a most diverting bit of comment. Curiously enough, it was dated FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Washington, Stipulation No. 339; and was in brief an agreement to prohibit the printing of fraudulent advertising...
Speaking of the three companies, at which the proposed investigation is aimed, the National Electric Light Association, the American Gas Association, and the New England Bureau of Public Service Information, he stated: "These organizations, according to the evidence before the Federal Trade Commission, appear to have financed propaganda activities in this State, even invading the sacred portals of Harvard College, the Harvard School of Business Administration...
...nothing to solve the unemployment problem. Cried Mr. Churchill: "It is the deliberate view of this Government that unemployment can be reduced normally by a revival of the basic industries. It has been urged that the Government should seek an opportunity for utilizing the national credit for stimulating general trade, and particularly in connection with assisting toward rationalization. Such transactions are far better dealt with in the sphere of regular business than by direct intervention of the state...
...Trade between Canada and the United States is the greatest trade that exists between any two countries in the world [see p. n]. . . . We have the word of those in authority in the neighboring Republic that there are to be certain measures introduced at a special session of Congress. An important measure, we are led to believe, is a measure relating to farm relief. Another measure relates to certain limited adjustments of the tariff; I think that is the expression which has been officially used. . . . "I say that, with the knowledge that we have before us at the present time...
Archibald Robertson Graustein. As a young Harvard law graduate, Archibald Graustein was just the man Tycoon Chace needed to look after his interests. A turbine for work, a turtle for silence, enormously shrewd, Lawyer Graustein was given charge of International Paper five years ago. Consolidations, trade agreements, and his activities on the directorates of other Chace interests, have kept hard-driving Mr. Graustein busy day and night, but now the industrial empire of which he is chancellor is approaching romantic vastitude. Grausteinia is becoming Graustark.* In the imperial coffers lies a treasure to which the felicitous French have given...